Ross Anderson: Searching For Evil

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Ross Anderson: Searching For Evil

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7WlHhZUayUw

Google Tech Talks
August 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, 
psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will 
describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as 
diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search for artificial 
communities.

Evildoers online divide roughly into two categories - those who don't want 
their websites to be found, such as phishermen, and those who do. The latter 
category runs from fake escrow sites through dodgy stores to postmodern Ponzi 
schemes. A few of them buy ads, but many set up fake communities in the hope 
of having victims driven to their sites for...



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